Word = a form - has a function (what is signified). Pronunciation is phonology, meaning is semantic. Spelling pattern is orthography, has a syntactic role.

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What is the spoken word form?

Phonemes (consonant and vowel sounds) arranged into stress patterns and syllables. Some cultures are different e.g. chinese have tone pitch pattern. Different languages have different numbers of phonemes e.g. English has 40.

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What is the written word form?

Graphemes - written by curves and lines (strokes.) Write left to right and top to bottom.

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How do we translate between spelling, pronunciation and meaning?

Relation between form and meaning is arbitrary, so we need a process that identifies the written form (from memory) and retrieves the connected meaning associated.

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What is the Word Identification problem?

We know 100,000 words. We recognise 2/3 a second, but takes 200ms to recognise 1 - this does not add up.

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How do we solve the Word Identification problem using option 1?

Introspective Reports - can examine what we are consciously aware of as we perform cognitive tasks. But gives little access, is misleading and doesn't tell how word identification is done.